Friday, 20 July 2012

Madrona Road

Madrona Road by Violet Craft for Michael Miller was one of the collections at Spring Market this May that really grabbed my attention. I really loved the colours, the story behind the line and the way there was a mix of scale that meant you could use the fabrics in all kinds of different ways.

Violet makes clothes, so she is incredibly conscious of scale in fabric - and a couple of the prints were so obviously designed with that in mind - in particular the backdrop in the photo above and the poppy print on a red background (it's really nice red, more orange red than London bus red, warm rather than angry).

I've been using some of the citrus colourway this week to make more giant granny square blocks (using my strip pieced tutorial but with 5" strips). I can't decide whether these will become 3 pillows or one really big body pillow. I also used an essex linen in steel, which was my second choice of background. Initially I thought I'd use a brown sketch but at the last minute the essex linen showed it's face from the depths of my fabric closet and it seemed a perfect fit.

Brenda has the full collection in stock now. As well as essex linen in steel. And as always you can use KATY15 for 15% off orders over $35 (excluding shipping). I used fat eighths of the citrus colourway (because I split my FQs with Lauli Pops) and a yard of essex linen in steel for 3 blocks that end up just under 20". So, FQs and probably 1.5 yards (because I had leftovers of the linen) would make double that, and so on.